Possum out there!

[mamav]

Originally posted by GB13
I always thought Vegans must be visitors from Vega

I'm a Vegan....but we spell it Vigen...Does that mean I actually married an extraterrestial?? I'd been wondering But try to take away me meat and you better be real quick

 

[Kismet]

as long as the Tribune Company owns the Cubs, they will never spend enough on talent to win the whole show. Even as we speak, their snivelling little corporate MBA bloodsuckers are projecting the escalating value of the land at Wrigley field.

Tragic really. Green Bay had the best idea: sell the stock shares to the community. Ah well....

 

[Chopsticks]

Originally posted by Ben Arown-Awile
These are suburban coons, not wild creatures from the rain forest.

Too easy, just gonna ignore that....


They live in the flood control ditch which runs through the neighborhood and have lived there for generations.

The houses were built in the 1970s. The coons were already there.

I think they are pretty well used to humans by now. [/QUOTE]


So? They can't get rabies and attack people?

Yes people like you have been conditioning them to associate humans with food in the past, does that make it right? :barf:

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

Originally posted by Chopsticks
... not everyone is a kindly animal saint, who can communicate with all of the creatures like yourself...Raccoons aren't no joke, they can really mess someone up!

"If you talk to the animals, they will talk to you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears, one destroys."

Chief Dan George

 

[Sylvrfalcn]

A friend of mine is a wildlife biologist who's been stuck with the disparaging nickname of "Euthanizer" because he kills a lot of Cowbirds. Here's the rest of the story. Fort Hood has 332 square miles of land that's home to two endangered bird species, the Black Capped Vireo, and the Golden Cheeked Warbler. These birds are ground nesters and Cowbirds are "parasitic nesters", meaning they lay their eggs in other bird's nests, namely Vireos and Warblers. If left unchecked, the Cowbirds would quickly squeeze out the endangered birds. My friend tracks Cowbird movement patterns by capture and banding, and destroys as many egg laying females as necessary to keep Cowbird populations at a level that allows them to non-destructively co-exist with the endangered species. For this he is mocked and ridiculed by other so-called "environmentalists". A heartless man, a cold blooded killer, etc., etc.. I personally know him as a very wise, intelligent, thoughtful, and caring person. Not just a wildlife biologist, but also a college professor (how I met him), and a former Army intelligence officer in the grade of Colonel, who's seen and done far more than he'd ever be comfortable talking about. Because of his "ruthless" and "cold blooded" practices Fort Hood hosts a thriving population of endangered birds (did I also mention the Eagles that winter here?) along with a healthy and well managed population of Brown Headed Cowbirds. Meanwhile, up in Oklahoma, there are whole counties that once had Vireos and Warblers but no longer have any, zip, nada. Why? Because the limp wristed goody goodys up there "didn't believe in killing poor helpless little Cowbirds". Spineless, apathetic punks, they were probably going out and feeding the poor little things.:barf: :grumpy:

Sarge

 

[firkin]

Most anything that lives in the environment changes it. "Environmentalists" included.

If one want's a place that's populated by people to look like it would if people didn't live there, then the place won't look like that on it's own. People will have to take action to compensate for the effects that they have, whatever they are...supressing fire, introducing cats and dogs, livestock, new plants, whatever. Even then it will only look similar to what people think it "should" look like if people weren't there. If those who get to do that "thinking" think deer behave like Bambi, then one usually sees a mess that looks even less like it might if people weren't there.

"Nature" is just the sum of what lives somewhere which includes all interactions , and so will "naturally" include humans in the sum. To expect otherwise isn't being an environmentalist, it's being willfully blind and stupid.